gaza
The world is so distracting now.
There are endless conversations going on, and Gaza finds himself the unconscious eavesdropper. It’s beneficial, to an extent. He can stand at the edge of the meadow and hear every verbal conversation that’s going on - the trick is learning how to focus on them. He can tell which mares are pregnant by their smell, and it’s all too easy when he hears a second heartbeat. How would Lyris like him now, when he can tell a storm (a natural one, not lady-made) coming a mile away. That drop in pressure. the smell, the change of the wind… discovering everything else the world has to offer made him lax after his initial offer, and he is a tad bit ashamed about that.
Especially when he sees his son. Don’t ask what it is about this boy - perhaps because it’s the first of his children that he’s actually seen (though he does not fault Lyris or Eld), or the gold strands in his mane that glisten like his Ima. But his heart is gone - stolen by the playful colt, even though the boy has no idea who he is.
Gaza knows he is late, and he murmurs a soft apology for his tardiness to the group, coming to stand near Wichita’s growing clan. He offers her a genuine smile, but stops there, unsure of how these post-coital meetings should go, especially with another child (not his!) on the way. How one mare could pop out so many children in succession is a little overwhelming to think about.. He can smell the fearful sweat drying on another mare’s skin, and how the deer smell mingles with horse around the King. Interesting. The black stallion listens while Mast speaks of war, and he wonders what Vanquish would do. He knows the story of how his Abba and Ima met - how they were thrown together on the eve of the Valley War, the then-bay mare accepting him as a soldier and sending him into the lion’s den, praying that the handsome stallion would return. Would anyone ever pray for him like that?
He’d pledged his aid, and he believes in their righteousness, but what in the world has he gotten himself in to?
vanquish x yael
[just a resident for now! I'm not sure what he'll be yet
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